Jalan: Mysteries of the Haunted World

Elemental Cores

The heart of a massive storm, the lightless oceanic abyss, the crushing depths of a mighty mountain, or the burning pulse of a volcano; all of these can be built around an Elemental Core, the churning, chaotic masses that coalesce into a different Layer of reality while remaining part of the World. All elemental cores are essentially one location, much like the three aspects of the Spirit Layer. The outer shells of the cores, from the World’s perspective, are formed of the elements they are found in, but deeper in they lose relation to the World’s form and open up into an endless barrage of clashing, flowing, raw elemental matter. Sometimes this inner chaos jettisons forth from the Cores and into the World; when volcanoes spew chunks of ice, burning rock floats inside a storm, or a hurricane forms in tunnels deep underground, it is a sign that a Core is at the heart of it.